Karaman pictures - Turkey

I visited this city, south-east of Konya, earlier and took only a few pictures. In September 2008 I returned and stayed a night, I then took many pictures. I repeated this in December 2010. I then gave the museum a gallery of its own. I will rearrange pictures later (which will show the same spots under differing climatic conditions), and add a few captions.

The Wikipedia states: "The town owes its name to Karaman Bey who was one of the rulers of the Karamanids. The former name comes from the Greek Laranda which in turn comes from the Luwian language Larawanda, literally "sandy, a sandy place". And: In ancient times Karaman was known as Laranda. It was destroyed by Perdiccas in about 322 BC and later became a seat of Isaurian pirates. It belonged to the Roman and later Byzantine Empire until it was captured by the Seljuks in the early 12th century. Karaman was occupied by Frederick Barbarossa in 1190. It was subsequently an important military site as part of the Cilician Armenian Kingdom, until they lost it. In 1256, the town was taken by the Turkish warlord Karamanoğlu Mehmet Bey and was renamed Karaman in his honour. From 1275, Karaman was the capital of the emirate (and later Ottoman province) of Karamanid. In 1468 Karamanid was conquered by the Ottomans and in 1483 the capital of the province was moved to Konya. Karaman has retained ruins of a Karamanid castle and some walls, two mosques and a Koran school (madrasah) from that age. An exquisite mihrab from a mosque from Karaman can now be found in the Çinili Pavilion near today's Archeology Museum in Istanbul." And on this site, if you follow the link.

Shall I take Karaman out? No problem, just a couple of clicks, and gone is the source of your irritation. I wrote I spent some hours there, I did not make it into a research project.

A resident in Karaman

10-Jul-2006 09:22

This part of your work is bad. Karaman was the capital for Karaman Emitare which fought against Ottoman State for centuries in order to be leader of Turks. The capital has lots of buildings from "Karaman Emirate" and "Anatolian Seljuk State". This important city also has lots of Christian Buildings dated back to 10 th century and before.